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Ike Faces One of Busiest Periods in Office on Return Washington IB Urgent missile spending decisions and preparation for crucial NATO talks in mid-December will plunge President Eisenhower into one of the busiest periods of his career when he returns today from Augusta, Ga. The President has just a few weeks to lay out a' new budget for Congress stepping up the missile effort and cutting back non defense programs. He also must come up with the rallying point for North Atlantic nations to meet Russia's new-found military-scientific strength. Interlaced among these two major pressing problems the Presi dent will have secondary ones and the regular business of run ning the government to keep hii hands full for the next six weeks. Top items: On Tuesday he makes his third "chins up" speech to the ration from Cleveland on the value of international cooperation to U.S. security. Bipartisan Meeting Started He holds a bipartisan meeting Dec. 3 with Congressional leaders to go over the U. S. proposals for the NATO meeting. Before NATO he will confer with Adlai E. Stevenson, who Is serving as a special NATO consultant. He also will confer with Republican leaders separately on his legislative program. At the same time government economists are gloomily predict ing a four million unemployment figure by February and labor leaders want the government to bolster the economy. Some of the President's biggest headaches loom in deciding what shall be sacrificed domestically for defense as well as how much more money should be put into missiles. According to current estimates defense spending may be upped one billion next year to 39 billion dollars. Benefit Programs Tabbed Budget Director Percival F. Brundage said Wednesday night that any shift of expenditures would have to come'from govern ment "benefit programs." He mentioned specifically farm price supports, veterans allowances and housing. The President is returning from his week-long vacation to find relations with France improved after the breach over U.S. arms to Tunisia. The two nations apparently have reached informal accord on establishing bases for U.S. intermediate range ballistic missiles In France and partial agreement on limiting guns to Tunisia to keep them from Algerian rebels. Rackets Committee To Subpoena Records Of Teamsters Locals Washington (IP The Senate Rackets committee drew up subpoenas today to force Mid west Teamsters locals under James R. Hoffa's control to hand over records on selection of dele gates to the union's recent con vention. Gfmmittee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy charged ihat 75 per cent of all delegates to the Octo bft: convention which elected Hoffa union president were 'Ifrosen illegally. Kennedy disclosed that only a few of the 400 locals in Hoffa's Midwestern Conference have complied with the committee's request for full data on how ffich unit selected and financed its convention delegation. Locals Reply More than half the Teamster locals throughout the rest of the country have replied to the re quest, he said. Almost all the Western Conference locals re sponded, he said, as did most of those in the Eastern Confer ence. The information was due Nov. 15. Kennedy said the committee is drawing up subpoenas for the records from 40 Midwestern lo cals. Data from other locals will be subpoenaed when committee experts have completed studying these, he said. He also told newsmen the com mittee has started drafting legis lative suggestions to submit with a report to Congress in January on the committee's work to date. Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said in a speech in Little Rock, Ark., Wed nesday that he expected the next session of Congress to crack down on crooked labor leaders. He proposed eliminating tax exemption privileges of unions whose officers refuse to give accounting of union funds. Grave Danger McClellan warned there is a "grave danger that in a few years our cherished free enter prise system will be supplanted by a racketeering, dictatorial controlled gangsterism economy" unless cleanup legislation is passed. Kennedy said the committee has agreed to let locals in the Southern Conference and some locals from the Chicago area furnish the delegate informa tion by Jan. 1, or after comple tion of the lower court case in Hew Members Listed For County Chamber .Sight new members of the board of directors of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce were announced today by the elections committee follow ing counting of the mail ballots. They will take office Jan. 1 for three-year terms. The eight were elected from a slate of 16 nominees. Both nominations and final elections were made by the entire membership. The new directors are Frank Bash, California Oregon Power company; H. D. Christensen. Nu Way cleaners; Ken W. Cook, United Air lines; Otto Ewald sen, Swem's Gift shop; Dwight Houghton, U.S. National bank, Chester Hubbard, Hubbard Brothers: Gerald T. Latham. Mail Tribune, and C. H. Young, Rogue Valley State bank. which thirteen rank - and - file Teamsters are challenging Hof fa's election. In addition, Kennedy said, the deadline for submission of exten sive financial data by Central and Southern Conference locals has been moved back from Nov. 15 to December 1. City Main Charges To Be Considered A public hearing on assess ments for a trunk water main in the Black Oak dr. and Ar gonne ave. areas will be held at the city council meeting at 7:30 p.m. today. There will also be an execu tive committee report on a study of the proposed franchise for closed circuit TV. Action on the ordinance was postponed pend ing the report of the committee at the Nov. 7 meeting. A second reading of the pro posed firearms ordinance will be made tonight. The ordinance would permit Medford residents to obtain firearms permits from the police chief for up to 30 days. The way the present ordi nance reads it is illegal even for a police officer to fire his pistol in the city limits, the chief said. Also under consideration at the meeting will be several amendments to the city business license fee ordinance on meth ods of setting space rental fees for motels and hotels. City At torney E. R. Bashaw was in structed by the council at the last meeting to prepare several amendments for council con sideration. Mitchell Says Rise In Prices Levels Off Washington (IP) Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell said today he believed the 13-month rise in consumer prices to record levels has "come to an end." The labor secretary also told a news conference that unem ployment would rise early next year but said this would not be "serious." Mitchell said the consumer price index for October to be re leased Friday would show no basic change from the Septem ber figure 121.1 of average 1947-49 prices. UN Delegates Eastern Sectors May Turn United Nations (tfl United Nations delegates today weighed warnings that two important sectors of the Eastern world may turn Communist unless their ter ritorial demands are satisfied. Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugandrio and Saudi Arabian Minister of State Ahmad Shuk airy delivered the warnings in two separate U. N. committee meetings Wednesday. Shukairy, speaking in the spe cial Political Committe debate on Palestine refugees, said the West might lose not only Saudi Arabia but the entire Arab world to Russia if it maintains 52nd Year Medford" MdT VniUd Pres Pull Leased Wir- . jg 28 Pages MEDFORD, ORF , NOVEMBER 21, 1957 A Larceny Trial of Beck Jr., Nears Climax in Seattle Attorneys Indicate Jury Action Friday Seattle rj) The grand lar ceny trial of Dave Beck Jr. near ed its climax today and both prosecution and defense agreed the case would reach the jury by Friday. The 37-year-old son of the out going Teamsters Union presi dent Dave Beck, is accused of selling two Teamster-owned Cad illacs and keeping the money. He took the stand on his own behalf Wednesday and testified he sold the cars on orders from his father. Beck said the 1951 Cadillac owned by Joint Council' 28 was sold Xo John Stratton of Seattle for $1,850 and paid for by check made out to him because no in structions had been given on how the transaction should be made. Someone Got Money He said he gave the money to his father a day or two later and asked "someone" in the union office to take care of a transfer of title. "Did your father tell you what he was going to do with the money?" asked defense at torney Charles Burdell. "He said it would find its way back to the rightful union," said Beck. "He said he was going to give it to Verschueren." Fred Verchueren Jr., Joint Council bookkeeper. Witness Challenged Earlier in the day, deputy prosecutor Laurence Regal charged Verscheuren's testimony that he had been given two enve lopes containing $6,600 by Beck Sr. purportedly containing mon ey from the sale of the Cadillacs "was a story concocted" by the bookkeeper and the Teamster of ficial. Verschueren denied the alle gation.. . Burdell said he would ask Beck Sr. to take the stand today if necessary." The retiring Teamsters presi dent was indicted by the same grand jury that indicted his son. He is charged with misappro priating the money from the sale of one union-owned Cadillac and will go on trial Dec. 2. Soviet Spy Says Space Secrets Given Lewisburg, Pa. OP) A con victed Soviet spy today told Sen ate subcommittee investigators that Russia obtained U.S. secrets on space platforms and atom powered planes from executed espionage agent Julius Rosen berg. At the same time, David Greenglass said Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel, turned over se cret information on antimissile missiles to the Russians. Robert Morris, counsel for the Senate Internal Security com mittee, said Greenglass, Rosen berg's brother-inlaw, told him of the incident during a 90-minute interview at the federal peniten tiary here. He did not say when the in formation was passed. Morris spoke to both Green glass and convicted spy Harry Gold here. Man Said Injured In Deadwood Tunnel Jim Shrum, 25, 1449 North College Way, Ashland, was ad mitted to Sacred Heart hospital late this morning for injuries received from an accident in Deadwood tunnel, in the Talent project. It was reported by of ficials that Shrum was employed by Lord Brothers of Ashland at the time of the accident. No further information was avail able at press time. Weigh Warnings That Two its present policy toward Israel. Will Drop Present Policy Subandrio, in the main Pol itical Committee's debate on West New Guinea, declared that Indonesia might be forced to ab andon its "active independent policy." if the Netherlands does not surrender the disputed ter ritory. Shukairy proposed the return of 900,000 Arab refugees to their Palestine homes, prohibition of Jewish immigration to Palestine, outlawing of Zionism, prohibi tionof Zionist fund-raising cam paigns and creation of a U.N. agency to send Israel's Jews back ea ss le :mM ei Dulles Warns Attack Would be Retaliated Chicago HP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned Wednesday night that an attack on U.S. allies would trigger a counter-attack on a par with "Pearl Harbor." Dulles said in a news confer ence that instant retaliation would follow any attack on the U.S. or its NATO allies because their forces are so meshed "cer tain kinds of attack" would call for an American counter-attack. Speaking later before the Chi cago Council on Foreign Rela tions, Dulles said the grave dan gers of international Commu nism were dramatically brought home to the Free World by the launching of Sputniks I and II. Dulles said the temporary ad vantages won by Soviet power in the missile field pose a threat that can be met one of three ways: 1 Make a deal with the Com munists. 2 Go it alone against them. 3 Meet in cooperation with other free nations and form alli ances like NATO. There was no doubt Dulles considered NATO-type alliances the obvious defense against Rus sian menace. The first proposal involves ac cepting Russian promises and, in turn, ending the ban on ship ments of strategic goods to satel lite nations and ending security pacts such as NATO and SEATO. The list of repudiated Russian promises rules this out unless there are enforceable safe guards, Dulles said. Go it alone, he said, and the U.S. would have to resort to a controlled economy such as Rus sia's and a large military estab lishment. Collective Policy Best V . Collective "defense, the "policy which has been keeping the peo ple of the world free since 1950 with no Russian advances, is the best solution available to the Free World, Dulles said. Following his speech, Dulles made these points in a question and answer period: Russia has adopted a me too policy in copying U.S. pol' icies of foreign aid. Freedom must be made so desirable, no despotisms can pre vail against it. The present situation in Russia cannot last forever, al- Trial Delayed For Glen E. Johnson , District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder reported today that the trial . of Glen Eugene Johnson, 36, Live Oak, Calif., scheduled to start today, will not be held as the attorney for the defense has indicated the defendant wishes to change his plea. John son had previously pleaded in nocent to a charge of grand lar ceny. He was one of three men ar rested by police last July in con nection with the robbery of Grady Allen Conner, Medford. Willie Woodrow Wolfe, 36, Los Angeles, Calif., and William Lloyd Johnston, 33, Huron, Calif., were also arrested in con nection with the same incident. Wolfe was found guilty by a jury trial Wednesday of grandJ larceny. Johnston pleaded guilty earlier to charges of larceny from a person and was senten ced to one year in the county jail. Wolfe is scheduled to be sen tenced in circuit court Friday and it is expected Johnson will change his plea at that time. Salem IIP) Bids on $5,400,000 in highway projects will be re ceived by the State Highway Commission in Portland Dec. 5. Communist to their original homelands. Noted Red Action He noted that Russia and its European satellites already have outlawed Zionism, halted its fund-raising campaigns and ban ned Jewish emigration to Israel. Subandrio hinted that Indone sia would line up with the Com munists if it is unable to obtain satisfaction in its eight-year-old dispute with the Dutch. Dutch Ambassador C. W. A. Schurmann replied that the Netherlands will never relin quish its portion of the war-famed Pacific Island except through the will of its inhabitants. -kLAXl though he does not know when it will end. West Germany would have to direct any policies involving an anti-Red uprising in East Germany. U.S. policy would not trade the wiping out of East Ger many and other satellites at the risk of global war. Budget Chief Says Benefits Will Be Cut For Program Washington (IP) The nation's budget chief has pointed the economy knife at farm subsidies, veterans benefits and housing to obtain more defense money. Percival F. Brundage, the budget director, is the first ad ministration official to name specific non-defense programs which President Eisenhower said will have to be cut back to finance the expanded space age military contest with Russia. Brundage gave the three as examples of federal "benefit" programs which would have to be reduced. He said all the pro grams account for $17 billion, or 23 per cent, of the current budget. Control of Spending Brundage discussed control of federal spending in a speech Wednesday night to the Wash ington chapter of the National Association of Accountants. Con trol over spending could be strengthened, he said, if Con gress would authorize the Presi dent to veto selected items in ap propriations bills. Under present L practice the president must sign or veto an entire money bill. Brundage reiterated his en dorsement of a proposal to make spending authority lapse on funds that are unspent at the end of a fiscal year. This is part of a recommendation by the Hoo ver Commission under which Congress moved to vote money only for goods and services that would be received in the fiscal year. This so-called "accrued ex penditure" system, Brundage said, would give the law makers more control "over the scope of agency programs" and of the budget "in terms of surplus or deficit." Government departments are now permitted to carry over ap propriations and spend them af ter the fiscal year for which Congress' voted them. Comedy Starts Today At Local High School "Carousel," popular musical comedy,, will open tonight at Medford High school auditorium for a two-night run. Curtain time is 8 p.m. . The production represents the combined effort of a large num ber of students, faculty members and groups. Vocal students, dra matic students and the orches tra will present the musical members -of the Art Students' league made the set, the home economics department helped with costuming and tickets are being handled by Future Busi ness Leaders of America. Lynn Sjolund and Mrs. Lenore Zap pell are musical and dramatic directors and Miss Colleen Hope aided with dance numbers. Tickets may be secured at the door. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow-Jonei final stock averages: 30 indus trials 439.80. up 6.43; 20 rail roads 102.70. up 1.87; 15 util ities 66.83. up 0.91. and 65 stocks 147.41, up 2.23. Sale today were about 2,190.000 shares compared with 2,400, 000 shares Wednesday. WEATHER FORECASTS Fair through Fri day except for patches of val ley fog tonight and early Fri day. Occasional gusty south east wind. Cooler tonight. Low tonight 25. High Friday Temp. Highest Yestirdav 48 Lowest this Morning 31 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 08 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ?:10 a.m. Sunset 4:45 p.m. The Moon will be In conjunc tion with the Sun (New Moon) 8:19 a.m. and sets 5:05 p.m. PROMINENT STAR Sirius. rises 10:15 p.m. and will h the brightest star in the sky the rest of the night. 'What Are We Fighting Now Inflation Or Deflation?" " " Vanguard Launching May Determine When U.S. Satellite Goes Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP) A slender Vanguard rocket was believed ready today for a trial launching which may determine when this nation can launch a satellite. There was no indication wheth er scientists will attempt to orbit a six-inch test satellite with the rocket's firing test. Nor was there any indication when sci entists plan. to-let fly with the black, white and gray missile. The mid-section, carrying the vital "brain" for its war or moonhead, has already been tested successfully on the ground. Might End Test There was specuation that if a test satellite is launched and High Winds Whip Los Angeles Area Los Angeles (W Strong winds in guests up to 75 miles an hour battered Southern Calif ornia today, threatening to develop into "one of the most severe" Santa Ana-type storms in recent years. The dread Santa Ana, a term applied by the weather bureau when wind, heat and dust com bine to plague residents below the mountain passes, howled out of the northeast this morning, raising a eye-blinding dust cloud as high as 5,000 feet. Power lines and trees were ripped down over a widespread area from the nearby citrus growing belt to San Fernando Valley. The weather bureau reported high fire danger in the moun tains which was expected to be come extreme tonight and Friday with winds of 35 to 70 miles an hour. Gott In Fair Shape After Collision Emmett Marion Gott, 42, of 2283 Buckshot Hill rd., was re ported in satisfactory condition by Rogue Valley hospital authori ties this morning after a car he was driving was involved in a collision on North Pacific high way about 12:05 a.m. Police said Gott's car was in volved in the collision with a car driven by Ralph Marion Guches, 509 Third st., Jackson ville, in front of 2330 North Pacific highway. Gott suffered a fractured sterhum and possible broken nose in the collision, according to city police They said he was taken to the hospital by Medford Ambulance Service after he com plained of chest pains. Road Conditions Siskiyous Spots of ict. Highway 66 (Green Springs) spots of ice. Prospect Pavement bare. Highway 230 (East Dia mond Lake id.) Packed snow, carry chains. Klamath Falls Pavement bare. All highways into northern California reported open. RIBUNE goes into orbit, the remaining two scheduled test firings might be called off and an earlier at tempt made to put up the actual satellite to match the Russian Sputniks. Newsmen, who make frequent and often fruitless trips here when there is a hint of a "big shoot," had little to go on besides a brief unveiling of the rocket pn the Airjc-rce missile test cen ter Wednesday, and the an nouncement from Washington that the "brain section" of the Vanguard had undergone succes sful statis firing at the center. More Tests Needed The Defense Department an nouncement indicated that more ground tests were needed before the rocket can be sent up from its launching pad. These may or may not have already taken place. . In Washington, J. Paul Walsh, deputy director of Project Van guard, told a news conference that the second stage of the rock et had been successfully tested on the ' launching pad. The second stage contains the eletronic equipment which will guide the rocket and satellite on the flight into space. The last Vanguard test was Oct. 23. The Defense Department announced it had shot up to 109 miles above the earth, reaching a peak velocity of 4,250 miles an hour. Officers Turn Wranglers In Big Horse Roundup City police officers Charles Chisum and Berle Stephens reported lo the desk sergeant Tuesday afternoon they took part in a roundup of several horses in the Springbrook and Delta Waters xds. area. The horses were rounded up and corralled by them within a few minutes of ar riving in the area, they re ported. The police officers didn't say whether they used the patrol cars in the roundup. Wisconsin Farmer Enters Innocent Plea to Murder Wautoma, Wis. (IP) Ed Gein, confessed killer of two women and possessor of a col lection of human heads, was charged today with first degree murder of Mrs. Bernice Worden. Gein's attorney entered a plea of innocent and innocent by rea son of insanity and Gein was bound over to circuit court for trial. The next term of circuit court comes next May, but a special session could be held next week, authorities said, at which time a sanity examination will prob ably be requested. The discovery of the kindly widow's butchered body in a lean-to on Gein's farm near Plainfield Sunday uncovered a pile of human skulls and other human body parts in the debris littered house. Seem Content Waushara county authorities seemed content to charge Gein with one murder and have him Price ) United Press Full Leased Wire No. 182 SiOilHlT Mahon Says Group 'Satisfied' With Progress Reports Calls for Production In Quantity of IRBM Washington HP) Rep. George H. Mahon (D-Tex.) today called for an end to interservice missile rivalry and the immediate pro duction in quantity of U.S. in termediate range ballistic mis siles. Mahon said that ordering pro duction now, and not waiting for certain perfection of the missiles, would be "a gamble." But he said it would be a "safe gam ble." Mahon is chairman of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee which is investi gating the entire U.S. missiles program. He spoke to reporters after a secret subcommittee ses sion with ballistics officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Navy officers said after the session that development of the Navy's intermediate range mis sile Polaris is being stepped up. They said the seaborne weapon will serve as a "tremendous de terrent" to Russian aggression. Time for "High Gear" Mahon told reporters that he and his subcommittee were "highly gratified" by the prog ress reports they received from the three armed services on what the military has done, plans to do, and are capable of doing in the missiles field. Mahon said that it was impos sible "for the moment" to elimi nate interservice rivalry. But he said the decisions on which mis sile or missiles to put into pro duction must "soon" be made to expedite the entire program so that it shortly may "bear fruit." He said that the decision should be made by the Defense Department "in a few days" to go ahead with production of in- O termediate range missiles in quantity. The decision, he said, should not be put off until Janu ary or next spring. Mahon said it obviously would be safer to wait until spring and further perfection of the mis siles before starting full-scale production. But he said recent Russian developments and U.S. prestige require immediate U.S. production of missiles. Rear Adm. John E. Clark, Navy director of guided missiles, said the Navy is exploring "every possible way" to advance the scheduled operational date for the Polaris. He said it now appears the timetable can be ad vanced "appreciably." No Rise Reported In Flu Case Count A total of 205 cases of flu have been reported to the county health office so far this week, health officials said today. This is about the same as the pre vious week, when the total for the entire week was 245 cases. The highest peak of flu cases was reported three weeks ago when 516 were reported through-' out the county. According to officials who have been administering the third round of Salk polio vac cine in the county schools, school attendance has been good with very few absentees reported due to illness. committed as insane. Villagers and authorities in other coun ties want to keep the case alive to determine whether the farm er is a mass murderer or grave robber. Gein also admitted the killing of Mary Hogan, 54, a Pine Grove, Wis., tavern operator who vanished about three years ago. Gein's confession to the second slaying raised fears that he may have been the mass murderer. However, Gein claim ed he killed only the two women and- got the other skulls from robbing fresh graves on moon lit nights. Crime Lab Director Charles Wilson's statement did not men tion the source of the other hu man heads and face masks. But local authorities appeared con vinced that Gein was telling the truth about the grave rob beries and made no plans to dig up any of the snow-covered graves for investigation.
